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The river giveth and taketh away. The river is going from here to there regardless of what you think or do. Understand how it works and you can paddle all day to your heart's delight. Fail to understand and you will be exhausted and miserable within 30 minutes. It all has to do with the flow.

The flow of a river is unique in that it is inevitable, but full of characteristics. As to the inevitability, it is going one direction and so are you. The characteristics of a river, however, give you license to be creative, aggressive or take a break as appropriate. Let's take a look at some of them.

The speed of a river is an important issue to understand. It may sound simple, but there are many facets to it. A river is generally fastest in the deepest portion. The deepest portion, however, may not be the middle of the river. When the river turns, for instance, the fastest flow is towards the outer bank as the physics involved in the turn force the water wide.

One of the simpler ways to understand the flow of the water is to look at it. No, you don't need to go to shore. Just take a break and look across the width of the river. If there is any pace at all, you should be able to see different parts of the river moving faster than others.

Now that you understand at least the rudimentary issues of river flow, how do you use them? Well, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to go fast on a river, find the central flow. If you want to slow down, move away from the flow to the sides where the water is moving much slower.

This may all sound basic, but it is important practical information if you think about it. Many a novice kayaker has complained that it is tiring to paddle so much. Well, you shouldn't be padding a lot to move forward. If you are, you are in the wrong part of the river. Instead of breaking a sweat tugging away, move to the deep, fast part of the river where paddling is used primarily for steering. With less exertion, kayaking will suddenly become much more fun.

Whenever something new, exciting and revolutionary is introduced to the general public, it's nearly a given that other corporations, companies and interests want to hitch their branding wagon to that train. And with the Apple iPod Nano, it was, and still is no different. The Apple iPod transformed the way the whole world thinks about where it takes it music. Soon after its release, you could walk around any hip metropolitan street and see those instantly recognizable white ear buds poking through the collars and jackets of many people, young and old, male and female. So, it didn't take a marketing genius to figure out that all those iPod listeners represent a huge target audience. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your point of view, a marketing genius did realize that.

Many companies that, at first glance, would have very little to do with the Apple iPod, soon lined up to be associated with the world's most popular portable digital music player. Before you knew it, there were charities working together with Apple to create an iPod Nano with that charity's logo and colors on it. It was a great way for a charity to appear current by working together with the Apple iPod Nano line as well as reaching a younger, more technologically savvy demographic that it otherwise would not have reached.

However, even though charities recognized the power of the iPod, it was the music industry itself that has taken the greatest advantage of the reach and visibility of the iPod. Now, the music industry generally frowns upon downloading music from a computer onto an iPod without paying for it. But, some people in the music world realized that the iPod Nano is so popular, that there are people who won't listen to music in any other format besides on their iPod. So, if you aren't working with the iPod, you are working against certain segments of your target audience.

Some bands decided to directly associate themselves with the iPod Nano; U2 being the biggest and most recognizable band to do so. A special U2 version of the iPod was released, and selected songs from an upcoming album were only available to be heard via the iPod. Of course, innovative, expensive and exceptionally cool marketing and advertising campaigns were released. Because of this foresight, two goals were achieved. One, of course, was to work together with the Apple iPod Nano to get the music and songs released and introduced to the public. The second goal was that U2 did not appear to be anti-download and embraced the iPod and everything it can do.

In the early days of music downloading, there were many bands who scoffed at the idea of having their music listened to for free. As a result, they appeared to be greedy, out of touch and completely against the wishes of their fans. But, with the advent of the Apple iPod Nano, it is now imperative that if the whole world is going to be listening to this little device, then they might as well be listening to you.

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